Is romance ruining your waistline?:
cording to a study published last July in the journal Obesity, love + marriage = weight gain isn’t inevitable, but the odds are stacked in favor of some weight gain. The study looked at almost 1300 “romantic partners” and found women who lived with a partner for at least a year increased the likelihood of being obese. For men, the odds of being obese doubled after 1 year of cohabitation. The study also found that couples who lived together for two or more…
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Are fans of the winning or losing team more violent?
nning fans. Via mindhacks.com In an initial study they found that violent incidents rose when the home team, Wales, won, rather than lost, regardless of the sport being played. A subsequent study evaluated fans on measures of aggressiveness, happiness and intention to drink alcohol before and after the match. It turned out that aggressiveness was increased in winning fans but not losing fans. A win did not increase happiness but losing or drawing decreased it and intention to drink was…
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New online dating service — that’s only for beautiful people:
autifulpeople.com insists applicants must submit a photograph of themselves to allow existing members to decide through an online rating system whether they are attractive enough to be admitted. Only about one in five applications to the website is successful. The site was launched in Denmark several years ago and has since opened in several countries including Britain, the United States and Japan. From this week, it will operate as one unified website across the globe. In total, it has accumulated…
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What Happens When You Put A Tag Cloud On Your Customer Support Forum:
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Are angry women more like men?
two studies, researchers asked subjects to identify the sex of a series of faces. In the first study, androgynous faces with lowered eyebrows and tight lips (angry expressions) were more likely to be identified as male, and faces with smiles and raised eyebrows (expressions of happiness and fear) were often labeled feminine. The second study used male and female faces wearing expressions of happiness, anger, sadness, fear or a neutral expression. Overall, subjects were able to identify male faces…
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Are Porn Stars Covered by OSHA laws?
e AIDS Healthcare Foundation is lobbying California to require the use of condoms in porn movies. Their argument is that this is an employee safety issue--like requiring workers to wear hard hats--and so should fall under the Cal/OSHA laws. But in an op-ed at Forbes.com Alex Padilla points out that to fall under the law will require classifying porn stars as employees rather than as performers and that has surprising consequences. ...the adult film industry would have to make every…
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Does money change what we think is fair?
study to be published in an upcoming issue of Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, shows that when it comes to distributing resources, people's ideas about what's fair change depending on what's being handed out. If it's something that has its own intrinsic value -- in-kind goods such as food or vacation days -- people are more likely to see equal distribution of such items as fair. But if it's something that is only valuable…
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Calvin and Hobbes, December 09, 2009
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